Overcount

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  overcount \o`ver*count"\, v. t.
     1. To rate too high. --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To count erroneously, such that the counted number is
        higher than the actual number.


        [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  overcount \o`ver*count"\, n.
     A count[1] that is higher than the true number; an
     erroneously high number determined by counting incorrectly;
     the result of overcounting[2].
     [PJC]